S02.E10: It Should Have Been You

[AnimeMania]

Garnet and Ian are trapped in the empty ship where they may remain for the rest of their lives.

Premiere Date: Wednesday, September 18, 2024     SyFy    10pm   

[tv echo]

Heartbreaking episode. "It should have been you."

Reminded me a little of Farscape's "The Locket" episode.

[NeenerNeener]

I feel cheated; we should have gotten a love triangle. Or a throuple.

[ottoDbusdriver]

Reminded me a bit of the ST:TNG episode 'The Inner Light'.

Brice becomes a better leader after initially fumbling.

Trust is still an asshole, but a kinder, gentler asshole.

Is there anything evil that Maddox didn't do ?  Because we keep finding out more and more about her evil projects.

On the plus side, minimal Kelly this episode.

My biggest problem with this episode -- the ship is in crisis, the FTL is busted,  and Alicia and Angus decide that is the appropriate moment for sexy time.  Twice !! Seriously ? 

Angus relegating himself to bartender was dumb.  Why isn't he growing more food instead of wasting effort on making alcohol.  He claims the agro areas all running on their own, but I'm sure he could be doing more.

[CarpeFelis]

I was surprised and disappointed in Sharon’s reaction when they finally came out of the comas. It just didn’t ring true. Like Picard in “The Inner Light”, she’d just experienced living most of a lifetime, even if it wasn’t real. It looked like they were in their 90s by the end and had experienced decades of a happy, loving marriage.

It was clear that Ian was still feeling it, and I felt bad for him when Sharon just brushed it all off. The experience may not have been real, but the emotions were. And in the world she’d just been living in, she’d had many, many years to grieve Spence, so the super emotional “it should have been you” scene seemed off.

If anything, I would have expected something like “Look at you! We’re young again!” and a big hug and/or kiss that would have surprised the hell out of everyone else. IMO that would have made for a more interesting story.

LOL’d at Angus showing up at Alicia’s cabin looking 1000% more confident and looking her up and down after getting Brice’s advice. Also at Trust referring to himself as an asshole.

[KeithJ]

20 hours ago, CarpeFelis said:

I was surprised and disappointed in Sharon’s reaction when they finally came out of the comas. It just didn’t ring true. Like Picard in “The Inner Light”, she’d just experienced living most of a lifetime, even if it wasn’t real. It looked like they were in their 90s by the end and had experienced decades of a happy, loving marriage.

It was clear that Ian was still feeling it, and I felt bad for him when Sharon just brushed it all off. The experience may not have been real, but the emotions were. And in the world she’d just been living in, she’d had many, many years to grieve Spence, so the super emotional “it should have been you” scene seemed off.

I have to agree with all of this.  There is no reason for Garnett to just turn her feelings around after probably 40-50+ years of being with Ian.  Her all of a sudden grieving Spence made zero sense.

[KaveDweller]

On 9/20/2024 at 9:34 PM, KeithJ said:

I have to agree with all of this.  There is no reason for Garnett to just turn her feelings around after probably 40-50+ years of being with Ian.  Her all of a sudden grieving Spence made zero sense.

Yes, and if anything, it should be hard to Garnett to jump back into captain mode like nothing happened. It would be more realistic if someone else mentioned grieving for Spencer and she had a lesser reaction because she'd experienced so much time to get past it.

Maybe they want to say the memories of the coma dream as getting foggy once she was awake, but that's not how they seemed to be portraying it.